Tyco SimplexGrinnell was selected by Confirmit to receive both the 2014 ACE (Achievement in Customer Excellence) Award and the 2014 ACE Award for Best Use of Feedback Solutions. The awards were presented at the annual Confirmit Community Conference held in Orlando, Florida.
STANLEY Security announced that Joshua Jackson, director of global product integration, has been elected as vice chairman of the Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA). Jackson will join new Chairman, Mohammad Soleimani, CTO and executive vice president of Kastle Systems, to help develop specifications for enabling standards-based sharing of digital data and intelligence throughout the physical security and enterprise ecosystems.
CSAA International, the voice for central station monitoring companies, announced that Steve Doyle, who has led the association for twenty-two years, will retire in October 2014.
Behavioral Recognition Systems Inc. (BRS Labs), creator of AISight®, the artificial intelligence analytics solution that teaches itself to recognize and alert on unexpected patterns within massive volumes of data, announced that 27 value added resellers have joined the company's rapidly expanding channel partner program during the second quarter of the year.
SightLogix, Princeton, N.J., announced Frank De Fina, a security industry veteran with more than 30 years of leadership experience, joined the company as executive vice president of sales and marketing as of July 1, 2014. De Fina shared he was compelled to come out of retirement to join SightLogix based on his belief in the company as a "hidden gem” with enormous growth potential.
United Central Control Inc. (UCC), a San Antonio-based company purchased the wholesale monitored accounts of Red Hawk Monitoring LLC, formerly Counterforce USA, and now a wholly owned subsidiary of Red Hawk Fire & Security LLC, out of Houston.
HID Global® announced at a ceremony and celebration event that its world headquarters and North American operations center in Austin has been LEED® Platinum certified and, according to the company, is the only industrial manufacturing facility in the state of Texas awarded this distinction.
For the third consecutive year, Monitronics International Inc. is the recipient of the Consumers’ Choice Award for excellence in business and customer service among Dallas-Fort Worth headquartered alarm system companies.
Sonitrol of Hawaii, a provider of verified electronic security to businesses, schools and homes throughout the Hawaiian Islands, announced the opening of a new central monitoring station located in Honolulu.
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